Dear all,
We, the Bork group of EMBL's Biocomuting Unit
(http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/), would like to announce
the immediate availability of the Advanced BLAST2 Search Service.
The URL address is:
http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de:8080/Blast2/
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This BLAST2 search service is based on the Washington University BLAST
2.0a6 Version (BLAST2).
BLAST2 differs from BLAST1 in providing gapped alignments for your
query sequences. In addition, we have incorporated a parser which
allows an overview of the HSP hits aligned against your query sequence.
When using this server service, you'll receive your result in HTML so that
you can easily scroll around the BLAST output. As the BLAST2 version
supports the use of multiprocessors and this BLAST2 server has been set up
on a multiprocessor system, your search request will usually be completed
quickly.
The Washington University BLAST 2.0 version [Vers. 2.0a6] has been kindly
provided by Warren Gish via the St. Louis server (http://blast.wustl.edu/).
In BLAST2, gapped alignments are integral to the database search itself,
yielding significantly increased sensitivity.
The input form to this BLAST2 server is designed according to the advanced
blast version provided by NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/BLAST/\
nph-blast?Jform=1). The idea for the output format is adapted from the
BEAUTY BLAST-postprocessing server at the Baylor College of Medicine
(Houston, http://dot.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu:9331/seq-search/protein-search.html)
This server will be continuously updated so that the formates and links
to other searchable databases and sequence retrieval infosystems might
slightly change in the future. Thanks!
Sincerely yours,
Yan P. Yuan, Jianmei Lai, and Peer Bork.
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Yan P. Yuan (1.)
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Bork Group - Biocomputing Unit - EMBL
http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/
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(1.) Yuan's URL addresses:
at EMBL - Bork group:
http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/
at DKFZ - M. Vingron's Bioinformatics group:
http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/tbi/
